Zach Anner Quotes

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The struggle I went through has value.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

I believe that at certain points in people's lives they need assistance in order to move on to the next point in their life.

If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.

If my story can help someone to better themselves in life, then so be it.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.